{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/223",
  "legislation_title": "The Horse Passports (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“horse” means a domestic animal of the equine or asinine species or a crossbreed of those species;\n“keeper” means a person appointed by the owner to have day to day charge of the horse;\n“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“passport” means–\n(a) an identification document for a horse issued by a passport-issuing organisation containing all the information required by regulation 9(3) or 1(3); or\n(b) in the case of such an identification document issued before the coming into force of these Regulations but which does not contain the pages in Section IX of the passport, that document with the Section IX pages attached in accordance with regulation 10,\nand “Section IX pages” means those pages;\n“passport-issuing organisation” has the meaning given to that term in regulation 3; and\n“sell” includes any transfer of ownership, and “sale” shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 16.5.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/223/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:26:08.434179+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}